Hello Folks,
I trust you've emerged relatively unscathed from the end of year / New
Year festivities.
Details below of a new book that may interest you (please forgive the
plug here).
best wishes,
David Cromwell
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'Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media'
By David Edwards and David Cromwell (Media Lens)
Pluto Books, London, 2006.
Can a corporate media system be expected to tell the truth about a
world dominated by corporations?
Can newspapers, including the "liberal" Guardian and New York Times
tell the truth about catastrophic climate change - about its roots in
mass consumerism and corporate obstructionism - when they are
themselves profit-oriented businesses dependent on advertisers for
more than half of their revenues?
Why did the American and British mass media fail to challenge even the
most obvious government lies on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction
before the invasion in March 2003? Why did the media ignore the claims
of UN weapons inspectors that Iraq had been 90-95% "fundamentally
disarmed" as early as 1998?
This book answers these questions, and more. Packed with interviews
and correspondence with leading journalists and news editors, this
book is required reading for anyone who wants to know more about the
systemic inability of our supposedly "liberal" media to report what's
really going on. The book challenges journalists to account for their
distorted reporting on Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Haiti, East Timor,
climate change, Western crimes in Central America, and much more.
The responses - often surprising, sometimes outrageous - reveal the
arrogance, unaccountability and servility to power of even our most
respected media.
Together, David Edwards and David Cromwell founded MediaLens
(www.medialens.org), one of the world's leading sites dedicated to
challenging the distorted vision of the corporate media. Thousands of
people worldwide subscribe to their online bulletins.
DAVID EDWARDS is author of Free To Be Human (Green Books,1995) and The
Compassionate Revolution (Green Books, 1998). DAVID CROMWELL is author
of Private Planet (Jon Carpenter Publishing, 2001),
www.private-planet.com. He is a researcher at the National
Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK.
http://www.medialens.org/bookshop/guardians_of_power.php
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